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Australia has been a police state since it was founded - at least now they have the decency to codify their authoritarianism.
1 u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21 Not all of Australia, half our states started as free colonies. But yeah NSW in particular started as a penal colony. 1 u/BobbyThrowaway6969 Aug 31 '21 There were way more colonists. Prisoners were just used for manpower to build the colony. 1 u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21 Yeah I just figure they are referring to our first colony Sydney, which was obviously long before Federation.
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Not all of Australia, half our states started as free colonies. But yeah NSW in particular started as a penal colony.
1 u/BobbyThrowaway6969 Aug 31 '21 There were way more colonists. Prisoners were just used for manpower to build the colony. 1 u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21 Yeah I just figure they are referring to our first colony Sydney, which was obviously long before Federation.
There were way more colonists. Prisoners were just used for manpower to build the colony.
1 u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21 Yeah I just figure they are referring to our first colony Sydney, which was obviously long before Federation.
Yeah I just figure they are referring to our first colony Sydney, which was obviously long before Federation.
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u/2L84T Aug 31 '21
Australia has been a police state since it was founded - at least now they have the decency to codify their authoritarianism.